heaven

and

on earth

REJOICES

Hallelujah!

HE LIVES!

…green plastic Easter grass, Cadbury chocolate filled eggs, jelly beans, “Dang it” they’re out of yellow peeps, okay I’ll run to Wallmart after I stop at Homegoods to get a clean table cloth, but maybe I should stop at the grocery story on the way so I don’t have to back track, Oh I am so glad I remembered to put the laundry in before I left, Hello? Okay, I’ll pick up your white shirt at the cleaners but then you will need to pick up from the sleepover and get everyone to the March Madness Tournament, I need to make another stop at Wallmart, can you believe Target is out of yellow peeps? But the pink bunnys are not tradition! okay I will see you at the gym, bye, What! you jerk who nicked my car door. people are so disrespectful, oh my gosh, I forgot the Easter egg dye, don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget to get eggs when you go to the grocery store, okay I think its stuck in my mind but when will we have time to dye them? perhaps before the movie. maybe get Costco dinner, that’s fast, then I’ll fold the laundry, while everyone is doing eggs, oh no, what about the gym? (sigh) okay, I will park far out at my stops power walk in and carry all the bags instead of using a cart, that will have to suffice, Hello? what, who threw up in the car?…

(Note: Jesus had been hastily wrapped by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus on that Friday before Sundown and Mary, his mother never got to touch him, but we know that they were watched by the women who loved him. This is why, on Sunday morning the women were the first to the tomb. They wanted to prepare the body properly and tenderly and had prepared herbs and spices for that sacred moment. The additional account of Mary wiping Jesus off after death was added for effect, to express a mother’s deep love and devotion to her child. Jesus Christ saw God, the Father, only after everything was finished; Christ went to the spirit world where all people go after death. Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage)